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Mills Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$139k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$47,500
Organizations funded a year
15 to 35
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$1.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Mills Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$133k18%
FY202415$128k13%
FY202329$121k0%
FY202229$117k3%
FY202133$128k6%
FY202035$131kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$218kHuman Services$174kEducation$103kFood & Nutrition$102kYouth Development$60kCrime & Legal$47kInternational$38kHousing & Shelter$17kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
MA
OR
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($161k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mills Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc: $127,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHarry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Collier and the Keys Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetYouth Haven Inc: $47,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Women's Center Inc: $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWashington University: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHope House of Milwaukee Incorporated: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFood Pantry of Waukesha County Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMeta House Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLake Area Free Clinic Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLiteracy Services of Wisconsin Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMiracles in Action Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGolf Fore Africa Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSojourner Family Peace Center Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Baird Foundation IncWI19.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Four-Four Foundation Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · American Endowment Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Mills Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Mills Family Charitable Foundation give?
Mills Family Charitable Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $139,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Mills Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Human Services (22%), Education (13%).
Who are Mills Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc ($127k), The Grace Place Inc ($70k), Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc ($70k).
Does Mills Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mills Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mills Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc.
Where is Mills Family Charitable Foundation based?
Mills Family Charitable Foundation is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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